Jeanine E. Jackson

Jeanine E. Jackson is an American diplomat. She was the ambassador to Burkina Faso from 2006 to 2009 and is currently the ambassador to the Republic of Malawi. She is also an accomplished pianist.

Biography

Jeanine Jackson was born in Wyoming. She is of European descent, and graduated from Hastings College with a BA in Art Education and the Florida Institute of Technology with a MBA.^[1] Prior to entering the U.S. Foreign Service, Jackson worked in Saigon, Vietnam, as a civil service employee at the Defense Attaché Office. She also served for 10 years as an active duty U.S. Army officer as a colonel, and served primarily in Germany and South Korea, before retiring and joining the reserves.^[2] She joined the Foreign Service in 1985, and saw prominent roles such as Post Management officer to the USSR (1991), Personnel Officer to Hong Kong (1997), Supervisory General Services Officer to Kenya (1998), Deputy Chief of Mission to Afghanistan (2001–2003), Coordinator for Iraq Transition (2004–2006), amidst others. She was appointed as United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso by George W. Bush in 2006, where she achieved a bilateral agreement with the state that enabled U.S. Special Operations Command to regularize and accelerate its counter-terrorism work against Al Qaeda in that region, and remained in that post until 2009.^[3] On May 5, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Jackson as United States Ambassador to Malawi, and was confirmed by congress on June 30, 2011. Her husband, Mark Jackson, is a retired Foreign Service officer; they served together in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia.

References

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